Mainstream people dislike homosexuality because they can't help concentrating on what homosexual men do to one another. And when you contemplate what people do, you think of yourself doing it. And they don't like that. That's the famous joke: I don't like peas, and I'm glad I don't like them, because if I liked them I would eat them and I hate them.

The Americans, of course, are quite dotty with hospitality.

I am told that you regret not what you did but what you didn't do; and so that's why I do everything, so as not to have any regrets.

I was beaten up wherever I went, and people shouted at me and cursed me and threw things at me.

The gymnasiacs of Venice, in California, are so addicted to these practices that there has arisen a nation of men who can no longer put their arms against their sides

I have to work in England, but here in America you don't have to work. You can sort of enter the profession of being.

I don't believe in convention at all. I do what I have to do to stay alive.